I Must Dissent: the Cowardice of Hillary Clinton
Pressure mounts, and she does not lead, but wants credit. Molding her public image since 2000, she is the embodiment of all that is wrong with the Democratic party. Too concerned with winning, embracer of the doctrines of Machiavelli, she will waste the opportunity that this nation has, scaring millions of willing and hopeful citizens back into the dark abyss of cynicism, to emerge in God knows how many millennia.
Healthcare was her first defeat. 16 years ago, she led a tepid charge to create a rigid system that had so many political holes, Republicans who had recently conquered the media, were able to make it their pitch when taking back congress, which would ram such gems like NAFTA (producing our current immigration crisis) and welfare reform, which as you know, puts the abject poor to work in dead end jobs.
Then Rwanda came. In 10th grade I watched a Hutu with a machete walking down a dirt road littered with bodies, some still moving; he would lift the bloody machete up and bring it down, and everyone in my 10th grade class jumped; we had just witnessed a murder, saw a life taken. After, we read Night by Elie Wiesel. I was 15.
I know of a motto, a little phrase that gives me an obligation to act when I see the weak being picked on, when I see bullies bullying, when I see a hungry homeless person, and when I see an injustice that I can do something about.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Hillary was wife to William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. If she indeed gained as much experience through osmosis from her husband, does she also absorb the flaws? Could she not have appealed to him to act, knowing women were being brutally raped and then hacked to death, children, entire families slaughtered? Why did she not act?
Hillary Rodham Clinton takes credit for her self described experience gained while her husband was in office. Will she accept responsibility? There are but two things any global citizen can do in good conscience.
1) Indict her of defrauding the American public by inflating her resume for the Presidency, or
2) Indict her, along with her husband, of sitting on their hands as hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were hunted, raped, and murdered.
That is why I cannot in good conscience cast my vote for her in any situation for the Democratic nomination - because I hold her as a fraud, or complicit in allowing genocide to take place at a time where Aspirin factories begged for bombs.
Then, after 9/11, she voted for the PATRIOT Act without reading it. In 2003, she joined the chorus of New McCarthyist Republicans in calling for an invasion of Iraq, like the President, claiming that Iraq harbored Al Qaeda and had WMD. I was 15 and was screaming on a soapbox to anyone who would listen, NO, NO, GIVE THE INSPECTORS MORE TIME. Barack Obama was saying the same thing.
200,000 dead Iraqis and 4000 dead Americans later, she opposes it. Oops. Guess I was wrong. Sorry about that, hey can I be President?
She was no different from the President then, in absolute lockstep, the swish-swish of her pantsuit in time with the drumbeat to war.
The root of this is cowardice. She is a coward, a sell out, a jackal, an opportunist, a panderer, a deceiver. I would support any other Democrat before I support her. In good conscience, I cannot consent. I must not consent, and I must speak out. I must dissent.
I cannot allow this opportunity for change to continue, I must not allow a continuation of the same politics to dominate Our Republic;
Our Ship of State is in Distress, and I must dissent.
Healthcare was her first defeat. 16 years ago, she led a tepid charge to create a rigid system that had so many political holes, Republicans who had recently conquered the media, were able to make it their pitch when taking back congress, which would ram such gems like NAFTA (producing our current immigration crisis) and welfare reform, which as you know, puts the abject poor to work in dead end jobs.
Then Rwanda came. In 10th grade I watched a Hutu with a machete walking down a dirt road littered with bodies, some still moving; he would lift the bloody machete up and bring it down, and everyone in my 10th grade class jumped; we had just witnessed a murder, saw a life taken. After, we read Night by Elie Wiesel. I was 15.
I know of a motto, a little phrase that gives me an obligation to act when I see the weak being picked on, when I see bullies bullying, when I see a hungry homeless person, and when I see an injustice that I can do something about.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Hillary was wife to William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. If she indeed gained as much experience through osmosis from her husband, does she also absorb the flaws? Could she not have appealed to him to act, knowing women were being brutally raped and then hacked to death, children, entire families slaughtered? Why did she not act?
Hillary Rodham Clinton takes credit for her self described experience gained while her husband was in office. Will she accept responsibility? There are but two things any global citizen can do in good conscience.
1) Indict her of defrauding the American public by inflating her resume for the Presidency, or
2) Indict her, along with her husband, of sitting on their hands as hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were hunted, raped, and murdered.
That is why I cannot in good conscience cast my vote for her in any situation for the Democratic nomination - because I hold her as a fraud, or complicit in allowing genocide to take place at a time where Aspirin factories begged for bombs.
Then, after 9/11, she voted for the PATRIOT Act without reading it. In 2003, she joined the chorus of New McCarthyist Republicans in calling for an invasion of Iraq, like the President, claiming that Iraq harbored Al Qaeda and had WMD. I was 15 and was screaming on a soapbox to anyone who would listen, NO, NO, GIVE THE INSPECTORS MORE TIME. Barack Obama was saying the same thing.
200,000 dead Iraqis and 4000 dead Americans later, she opposes it. Oops. Guess I was wrong. Sorry about that, hey can I be President?
She was no different from the President then, in absolute lockstep, the swish-swish of her pantsuit in time with the drumbeat to war.
The root of this is cowardice. She is a coward, a sell out, a jackal, an opportunist, a panderer, a deceiver. I would support any other Democrat before I support her. In good conscience, I cannot consent. I must not consent, and I must speak out. I must dissent.
I cannot allow this opportunity for change to continue, I must not allow a continuation of the same politics to dominate Our Republic;
Our Ship of State is in Distress, and I must dissent.
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